Glenn Hauser wrote: > I caught the playback. The guests from WXXI and Clear Channel were only there > to promote HD, and it was left to some listeners to bring up drawbacks. Such > as > power-hogging making portable HD receivers untenable, FM HD range being > limited > compared to the analog signal. Not even Scott brought up the imminent prospect > of nighttime IBOC, to the WHAM CC guy. I still don`t get it. Here I am 1100+ > miles away hearing WXXI stream clear as a bell, and people in Brockport > supposedly need WXXI (AM) on WXXI (FM) HD2 in order to hear it at night, > meanwhile noising up the adjacent frequencies preventing some other stations > from being audible. Scott said he does a tech segment during ATC discussing > such things further (for 4 minutes?), I believe he said Wednesdays at 6:45? > 73,
Since we're not running HD on our AM, and have no plans to do so, bringing up the AM interference issues seemed a bit off-topic. And yes, we really do have a very hard time being heard in places like Brockport and Fairport, well within our market, thanks to an AM signal that was designed to cover the market as it existed in 1944. Streaming is part of the solution to that problem, but the FM HD2 simulcast may well be a part of it, too. We'll never know if we don't try. Adjacent frequencies? When we were out at the get-together at Jim Renfrew's place in Clarendon (just west of Brockport, 20 miles or so from Rochester), I had no problem at all hearing CJLX on 91.3 from Belleville, Ontario. I can't recall if we heard anything on 91.7; if we did, it would have been CIXL from Welland, Ontario. The tech segment in question is called "Mixed Media"; it airs Wednesdays at 5:44 ET during All Things Considered, and we have archives of the segments here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=section&SECTION_ID=2446 There's also a podcast of today's show here: http://www.wxxi.org/radio/hd/index.html It's true, as Glenn says, that the guests were there to promote HD. That, after all, was the purpose of the show - if the system is to have any chance of succeeding, it had better have some promotion from broadcasters themselves. s _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
